Amazon and Indian Railways

Amazon and the Indian Railways have entered into partnership for moving customer packages on 325 inter-city routes. The company first partnered with the Indian Railways in 2019 and now the partnership is further strengthened and increased its routed five-fold. The Railways enables the company to make one- and two-day deliveries to customers and towns and smaller cities. 

By strengthening this engagement, Amazon India will ferry packages to Jharsuguda, Ratnagiri, Kurnool, Nanded, Bareilly, Bokaro and Rudrapurc covering a bunch of states. This arrangement is in line with what Amazon stands for- timely deliveries. 

Venkatesh Tiwari, Director at Amazon Transportation, India has said that they are focussed at providing fast and convenient shopping experience to the customers disregarding the distance of the location of their stay. Mr Tiwari has also said that Amazon will continue to engage with the Indian Railways and create more opportunities to use the strong network and infrastructure built by the Railways.

Amazon is the first company in the Indian e-commerce space to work with the Indian Railways to build an express transportation product via rail in 2019. It has since continued to increase the volume of packages transported through this network. During the COVID lockdown period, Amazon worked with the Indian Railways to transport high-priority products.

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